It may not be a national security problem but is damn sure is a national SURVIVAL problem. We cannot continue uncontrollable spending by this nation, we do NOT have the resources to support it. Thanks Demodummies and CONGRESS.
This is the problem that we face. Elected officials like Ed Markey are clueless about elementary economics. Unfortunately 99% of the people that we send to Washington are in the same boat. They have never met a payroll or picked up a basic economics text book, consequently they have no idea on running our economy. Arrogant fools!
Another braindead public servant shooting off his big mouth.
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents…
10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, and should be familiar in its use to every politician…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
Markey and the rest of the current and former gang of 535 should be in federal prison.
DEPOPULATE criminals/scumbags/liars/plunderers/socialists/totalitarians from the body politic.
DEFUND their collectives, foreign and domestic.
DISMANTLE their unaccountable domestic bureaucracies (socialist constructs).
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. - list of grievances; Declaration of Independence
https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a
live - free - republic
Free Traitors™ tell us trade deficits don’t matter either. What is the difference between the two groups?
What next from the communist democrat party,George Bush really didn’t ruin the economy? Someone better tell Hillary!
These scumbag democrats are really a piece of work
Markey is as dumb as a rock.
Some day they will be yelling “Oops, we were wrong.” Then what?
I heard the same thing coming from the .com bunch I was contracting with just before their bubble burst......
Our Government spends over 225 BILLION dollars a year just to service the interest on our National Debt.
Just the interest!
Imagine what we could do for our nation for our people with that money.
Then think about the folks running for President that want to expand Government spending (which always means expanding Government borrowing) and what that will do to our debt and the amount we waste on interest.
My dad is a life long Dem and he always told me the same thing. The national debt doesn’t mean anything because the government can always print more money.
Ok so put all your money and assets up to back this claim up, oh.......not sure? We thought so,another intelligent idiot spewing sh## again
Deficit deniers should be prosecuted under RICO laws.
We have since learned that the world has a great appetite for US Government debt. Is permanent and increasing debt OK? Intuitively, we know it isn't. Our intuition is right.
Many Americans want the government to spend on them and their causes. Can't we just pretend that debt (or taxes, or inflation) are essentially costless, or the cost falls on someone else? As Obama might say “yes we can.” Unfortunately, believing a falsehood does not help.
I think the only answer is to address spending, primarily entitlements. The entire idea of being “entitled” is wrong. I accept that those who have put money into a program, for example social security or medicare, should get their money back. I believe in compassion, but not "public compassion." We should get the government out of the charity business.
“That surprised committee chairman Bob Corker”
Just say “crackpot” Corky, and everything will be fine.
Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money. Separately each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but when united in view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effects. place before the eyes of such men a post of honour that shall at the same time be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast number of such places it is that renders the British Government so tempestuous. The struggles for them are the true sources of all those factions which are perpetually dividing the Nation, distracting its councils, hurrying sometimes into fruitless & mischievous wars, and often compelling a submission to dishonorable terms of peace.
And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable pre-eminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your Government and be your rulers. And these too will be mistaken in the expected happiness of their situation: For their vanquished competitors of the same spirit, and from the same motives will perpetually be endeavouring to distress their administration, thwart their measures, and render them odious to the people.
Besides these evils, Sir, tho’ we may set out in the beginning with moderate salaries, we shall find that such will not [83] be of long continuance. Reasons will never be wanting for proposed augmentations. And there will always be a party for giving more to the rulers, that the rulers may be able in return to give more to them. —Hence as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the Governing & Governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partizans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever. It will be said, that we don’t propose to establish Kings. I know it. But there is a natural inclination in mankind to Kingly Government. It sometimes relieves them from Aristocratic domination. They had rather have one tyrant than five hundred. It gives more of the appearance of equality among Citizens, and that they like. I am apprehensive therefore, perhaps too apprehensive, that the Government of these States, may in future times, end in a Monarchy. But this Catastrophe I think may be long delayed, if in our proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction & tumult, by making our posts of honor, places of profit. If we do, I fear that tho’ we do employ at first a number, and not a single person, the number will in time be set aside, it will only nourish the fœtus of a King, as the honorable gentleman from Virginia very aptly expressed it, and a King will the sooner be set over us.
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 1
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1057
Ed Markey has been in Congress since he was in diapers. He’s a prime example of the infantile leftist.
The YUGE debt is crushing the middle class you morons!